Version of 3 October 2026 · Definitions · Scope of rights · Desktop · Web · App · Digital document · Advertising and email · Restrictions · Price and withdrawal · Disputes

This English translation is provided for convenience. In accordance with article 17.5, only the French version is legally binding.

Preamble

Jeremy Aiache, type designer, is the author of the typeface named “Ottomar” and of the font software that enables its use. He alone holds all intellectual property rights in it.

This licence agreement (the “Agreement”) sets out the conditions under which these rights are granted to any person who acquires a licence. It prevails over any other document, including the Licensee's general purchasing conditions.

Article 1 – Definitions

The following capitalised terms have the meanings below in the Agreement, in the singular and plural.

• Licensor: Jeremy Aiache, author and rights holder of the Font.
• Licensee: the natural or legal person named on the Invoice, sole beneficiary of the Licence. Companies within the same group are separate Licensees.
• Consumer: a Licensee who is a natural person acting for purposes outside their trade, business, craft or profession.
• Font: the design of the Ottomar typeface and the font software containing it, in all formats (OTF, WOFF2, WOFF), versions and updates.
• Licence: the right of use granted to the Licensee under one of the categories defined in articles 4 to 6 ter.
• Tier: the level of use purchased for a Licence category (number of Workstations, Page views, Apps, Publications or Impressions), stated on the Invoice.
• Invoice: the proof of purchase issued with the order, stating the Licence category, its Tier and its price. It forms an integral part of the Agreement.
• Workstation: any computer on which the Font is installed, whoever uses it.
• Page views: the total number of loads of web pages displaying the Font, across all visitors and all of the Licensee's websites, measured per calendar month.
• App: software operated under a single name, whatever its devices and operating systems.
• Registered users: the number of people holding an account in, or having installed, the App.
• Publication: a distributed digital document (ebook, digital magazine, commercial or interactive PDF). Each issue or edition is a separate Publication.
• Impressions: the total number of displays of advertising banners and emails sent using the Font.
• Derivative work: any typeface, font or set of glyphs reproducing or adapting, even partially, the design of the Font.
• Production: any document, image, video, product or medium created by the Licensee with the Font, from which it cannot be extracted as software.

Article 2 – Purpose and formation of the Agreement

2.1. The purpose of the Agreement is the grant by the Licensor to the Licensee of a Licence to use the Font, within the limits of the category and Tier stated on the Invoice.

2.2. The Agreement is formed by the Licensee's express acceptance when ordering, given by ticking a box referring to this text. Downloading, installing or using the Font also constitutes unreserved acceptance of the Agreement.

2.3. The Font is not sold. No ownership is transferred to the Licensee, who benefits only from the rights expressly listed in the Agreement. All rights not expressly granted are reserved to the Licensor.

Article 3 – Scope of the rights granted

3.1. In accordance with article L.131-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code, the Licence is granted:

• on a non-exclusive basis, the Licensor remaining free to grant identical rights to third parties;
• worldwide;
• for the legal term of copyright protection of the Font, subject to termination under article 15;
• for the sole modes of use defined in the article for the Licence category acquired, within the limit of its Tier;
• for the price stated on the Invoice, paid once, with no recurring fee.

3.2. The Licence is personal and non-transferable. It may not be assigned, transferred, sublicensed or made available to a third party, free of charge or for consideration, without the Licensor's prior written consent, except in the case referred to in article 8.2.

3.3. The Licensee may hold several Licences. Each Licence category is independent: a Licence confers no right belonging to another category.

3.4. Productions created in accordance with the Agreement remain the Licensee's property and may be used without time limit, including after termination of the Licence for Productions distributed before it.

Article 4 – Desktop licence

4.1. Rights granted. The Desktop licence authorises the Licensee to reproduce the Font by installing it on the number of Workstations corresponding to its Tier, from one (1) to ten (10), and to use it to create Productions. Beyond ten Workstations, a company licence is available on quotation.

4.2. Authorised Productions. These include publishing and printing, packaging and signage, logos and visual identities, including their registration as trademarks, exported images and videos, social media posts, and printed products for sale, provided the Font is not their main element.

4.3. Digital documents. The Font may be embedded in PDF files intended for internal use or occasional exchange, as a non-editable subset. The distribution of Publications falls under the Digital document licence (article 6 bis).

4.4. Exclusions. The Desktop licence covers neither the integration of the Font into a website (article 5), an App (article 6), Publications (article 6 bis), nor advertising banners or emails (article 6 ter).

4.5. File supplied: OTF format.

Article 5 – Web licence

5.1. Rights granted. The Web licence authorises the Licensee to integrate the Font into the pages of its websites, using the CSS @font-face rule, within the number of Page views per month corresponding to its Tier, from ten thousand (10,000) to two million (2,000,000).

5.2. Technical conditions. The Font files are hosted on the servers of the Licensee or its host, and served exclusively to its websites. The Licensee takes reasonable measures to prevent their direct download or use by other websites, in particular by origin restriction.

5.3. Exclusions. Not covered: installing the Font on a Workstation, advertising banners and emails (article 6 ter), and any interface allowing visitors to set their own text in the Font.

5.4. Files supplied: WOFF2 and WOFF formats.

Article 6 – App licence

6.1. Rights granted. The App licence authorises the Licensee to embed the Font in the number of Apps corresponding to its Tier, from one (1) to three (3), each within twenty-five thousand (25,000) Registered users. The same App distributed on several platforms counts as a single App.

6.2. Technical conditions. The Font is embedded in a form that prevents the end user from accessing, extracting or using it outside the App.

6.3. Covered uses. The App's interface and the fixed content it displays.

6.4. Exclusions. The following require a server licence on quotation: any feature allowing users to set their own text in the Font (editor, visual generator, layout tool, online service), commercially released video games, and Apps transferred or white-labelled to third parties.

6.5. Files supplied: OTF, WOFF2 and WOFF formats.

Article 6 bis – Digital document licence

6 bis.1. Rights granted. The Digital document licence authorises the Licensee to embed the Font in the number of Publications corresponding to its Tier, from one (1) to twelve (12), and to distribute them without limit of copies or time.

6 bis.2. Technical conditions. The Font is embedded as a subset, so that it cannot be extracted and installed as a font.

6 bis.3. File supplied: OTF format.

Article 6 ter – Advertising and email licence

6 ter.1. Rights granted. The Advertising and email licence authorises the Licensee to integrate the Font into digital advertising banners and emails, within the total number of Impressions corresponding to its Tier, from two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) to ten million (10,000,000).

6 ter.2. Technical conditions. The Font files are embedded in the banners or served to the emails in a way that prevents recipients from retrieving them.

6 ter.3. Files supplied: WOFF2 and WOFF formats.

Article 7 – Restrictions

7.1. Unless authorised in advance and in writing by the Licensor, the Licensee may not:

• modify, adapt, translate, convert into another format or rename the Font;
• create, have created or exploit a Derivative work;
• reproduce the Font beyond the limits of its Licence and Tier, or distribute, rent, lend, share or make it available to anyone, in particular via a network, a shared folder or a public code repository;
• exploit the Font as the main element, in particular as alphabets, letters to cut out or print, or any product whose value lies essentially in the design of the characters;
• remove or disable the authorship, copyright and licence notices contained in the files.

7.2. Converting letters into vector outlines to create a logo or a Production is not a modification within the meaning of this article, provided it does not reconstitute a usable typeface.

7.3. Legal exceptions. Nothing in the Agreement restricts the rights granted by article L.122-6-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code to a person entitled to use software, under the strict conditions it sets, including making a backup copy and decompiling as necessary for interoperability.

Article 8 – Contractors and clients

8.1. Licensee's contractor. The Licensee may commission a contractor (designer, agency, developer) to create Productions, who may use the Font only for the purposes of the assignment. The contractor must hold its own Desktop licence to install the Font. The Licensee is responsible for its contractors' compliance with the Agreement.

8.2. Licensee as contractor. When the Licensee carries out an assignment for a client, it may use its Licence to create Productions delivered to that client. If the client must itself install, integrate or exploit the Font (website, App, Publication, later modifications), it acquires the corresponding Licence in its own name. The Licensee may acquire this Licence on behalf of its client and transfer it once, by handing over the Agreement and the Invoice.

Article 9 – Intellectual property

9.1. The Font is a work protected by copyright under articles L.111-1 and L.112-2 of the French Intellectual Property Code. The font software is also protected under articles L.122-6 and following of the same code. The Licensor retains full ownership.

9.2. Moral right. The Licensor's moral right, which is perpetual, inalienable and imprescriptible, is reserved. The Licensee shall not impair the integrity of the Font, in particular by any distortion or presentation likely to alter its design, subject to the uses authorised in article 7.2. The Licensee is not required to credit the author in its Productions.

9.3. Name. The name “Ottomar” belongs to the Licensor. The Agreement gives the Licensee no right to use this name, except to refer to the Font descriptively.

9.4. Infringement. Any use of the Font outside the limits of the Agreement constitutes infringement within the meaning of articles L.335-2 and L.335-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code, without prejudice to the Licensee's contractual liability.

Article 10 – Delivery and updates

10.1. The Font files are made available for download as soon as payment is confirmed. The Licensee checks that they work on receipt and reports any defect within thirty (30) days.

10.2. Updates to the Font (corrections, added characters) are supplied free of charge to the Licensee for the Licence category acquired. The Licensor has no development or maintenance obligation beyond the legal conformity obligations.

10.3. The Licensee keeps a copy of the Invoice, which is proof of its Licence and Tier.

Article 11 – Price and right of withdrawal

11.1. The price of each Tier is shown in euros, all taxes included, on the Licensor's website on the day of the order. It is payable in full at once. For information, as of this version:

• Desktop: from €15 (1 Workstation) to €90 (10 Workstations).
• Web: from €15 (10,000 Page views per month) to €450 (2,000,000 Page views per month).
• App: from €255 (1 App) to €645 (3 Apps).
• Digital document: from €30 (1 Publication) to €360 (12 Publications).
• Advertising and email: from €15 (250,000 Impressions) to €90 (10,000,000 Impressions).

11.2. Consumers. Under article L.221-28, 13°, of the French Consumer Code, the Consumer acknowledges that the Font is digital content supplied without a physical medium, whose performance begins when the files are made available. By requesting immediate availability, the Consumer gives express consent and waives the right of withdrawal, which they acknowledge by ticking a separate box when ordering.

Article 12 – Warranties

12.1. The Licensor warrants that it holds the rights necessary to grant the Licence, and that the Font does not infringe any third party's intellectual property rights.

12.2. Consumers. The Consumer benefits from the legal conformity guarantee for digital content under articles L.224-25-1 and following of the French Consumer Code. Nothing in the Agreement may limit it.

12.3. Professionals. Other than for Consumers, the Font is supplied as is. The Licensor undertakes to correct reproducible defects reported to it within a reasonable time. It does not warrant the suitability of the Font for any particular use or technical environment.

Article 13 – Liability

13.1. Professionals. The Licensor may be held liable only for proven fault. Its liability is limited to direct and foreseeable damage, and capped at the price paid for the Licence concerned. Indirect damage is excluded, in particular loss of profit, loss of data or damage to reputation.

13.2. These limitations do not apply in the event of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, in accordance with article 1231-3 of the French Civil Code, or in the event of bodily injury.

13.3. Consumers. With regard to the Consumer, the Licensor's liability is assessed under ordinary law, within the limits of the mandatory provisions of the French Consumer Code.

13.4. The Licensee is solely responsible for its use of the Font and the content of its Productions.

Article 14 – Usage audit

14.1. On written and reasoned request, the Licensee makes available to the Licensor the information needed to check compliance with its Tier (number of Workstations, Page view statistics, number of Registered users, Publications or Impressions), within thirty (30) days. Such a request may not be made more than once per calendar year.

14.2. If an overuse is found, the Licensee acquires within thirty (30) days the Tier or licence matching its actual use, at the current rate, less the price already paid for the lower Tier. This regularisation does not prevent the application of article 15.

Article 15 – Termination

15.1. If the Licensee breaches any of its obligations, in particular under articles 3, 7 and 14, the Licensor may terminate the Licence automatically fifteen (15) days after a formal notice that has remained without effect, sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by email with acknowledgement of receipt, in accordance with articles 1224 and 1225 of the French Civil Code.

15.2. On termination, the Licensee stops all use of the Font and destroys all copies. Productions distributed before termination may continue to be used, except those created in breach of the Agreement.

15.3. Articles 7, 9, 13 and 18 survive termination of the Agreement.

Article 16 – Personal data

Data collected when ordering (identity, contact details, billing) is processed by the Licensor, as data controller, to manage Licences and meet its accounting obligations, on the basis of the performance of the Agreement and its legal obligations. It is kept for the legal retention period for accounting records. The Licensee has the rights provided by Regulation (EU) 2016/679, which it exercises with the Licensor through the contact page, and may lodge a complaint with the CNIL.

Article 17 – General provisions

17.1. Entire agreement. The Agreement and the Invoice constitute the entire agreement between the parties on their subject and supersede any prior exchange.

17.2. Severability. If a provision is held void or unenforceable, it is deemed unwritten, without affecting the validity of the other provisions.

17.3. No waiver. The Licensor's failure to invoke a breach does not constitute a waiver of its right to invoke it later.

17.4. Changes. The Licensor may amend the Agreement. The applicable version is the one accepted when ordering; later amendments do not apply to Licences already granted.

17.5. Language. The Agreement is drawn up in French. In the event of translation, only the French version is authoritative.

Article 18 – Governing law and disputes

18.1. The Agreement is governed by French law, excluding the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods.

18.2. Consumers. In the event of a dispute, the Consumer first sends a written complaint to the Licensor. Failing a solution, they may refer the matter free of charge to the consumer mediator named on the Licensor's website, in accordance with articles L.612-1 and following of the French Consumer Code. They retain the right to bring the matter before the competent court under the legal rules, in particular that of their place of residence.

18.3. Professionals. Any dispute between professionals relating to the formation, performance or interpretation of the Agreement falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Paris, including for summary proceedings or multiple defendants.